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Prometheus command-line interface (CLI) options
$ ./prometheus -h
usage: prometheus [<flags>]
The Prometheus monitoring server
Flags:
-h, --help Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
--version Show application version.
--config.file="prometheus.yml"
Prometheus configuration file path.
--web.listen-address="0.0.0.0:9090"
Address to listen on for UI, API, and telemetry.
--web.read-timeout=5m Maximum duration before timing out read of the request, and closing idle connections.
--web.max-connections=512 Maximum number of simultaneous connections.
--web.external-url=<URL> The URL under which Prometheus is externally reachable (for example, if Prometheus is served via a reverse proxy). Used for
generating relative and absolute links back to Prometheus itself. If the URL has a path portion, it will be used to prefix
all HTTP endpoints served by Prometheus. If omitted, relevant URL components will be derived automatically.
--web.route-prefix=<path> Prefix for the internal routes of web endpoints. Defaults to path of --web.external-url.
--web.user-assets=<path> Path to static asset directory, available at /user.
--web.enable-lifecycle Enable shutdown and reload via HTTP request.
--web.enable-admin-api Enable API endpoints for admin control actions.
--web.console.templates="consoles"
Path to the console template directory, available at /consoles.
--web.console.libraries="console_libraries"
Path to the console library directory.
--web.page-title="Prometheus Time Series Collection and Processing Server"
Document title of Prometheus instance.
--web.cors.origin=".*" Regex for CORS origin. It is fully anchored. Example: 'https?://(domain1|domain2)\.com'
--storage.tsdb.path="data/"
Base path for metrics storage.
--storage.tsdb.retention=STORAGE.TSDB.RETENTION
[DEPRECATED] How long to retain samples in storage. This flag has been deprecated, use "storage.tsdb.retention.time" instead.
--storage.tsdb.retention.time=STORAGE.TSDB.RETENTION.TIME
How long to retain samples in storage. When this flag is set it overrides "storage.tsdb.retention". If neither this flag nor
"storage.tsdb.retention" nor "storage.tsdb.retention.size" is set, the retention time defaults to 15d. Units Supported: y, w,
d, h, m, s, ms.
--storage.tsdb.retention.size=STORAGE.TSDB.RETENTION.SIZE
[EXPERIMENTAL] Maximum number of bytes that can be stored for blocks. Units supported: KB, MB, GB, TB, PB. This flag [1/1950]
experimental and can be changed in future releases.
--storage.tsdb.no-lockfile
Do not create lockfile in data directory.
--storage.tsdb.allow-overlapping-blocks
[EXPERIMENTAL] Allow overlapping blocks, which in turn enables vertical compaction and vertical query merge.
--storage.tsdb.wal-compression
Compress the tsdb WAL.
--storage.remote.flush-deadline=<duration>
How long to wait flushing sample on shutdown or config reload.
--storage.remote.read-sample-limit=5e7
Maximum overall number of samples to return via the remote read interface, in a single query. 0 means no limit. This limit is
ignored for streamed response types.
--storage.remote.read-concurrent-limit=10
Maximum number of concurrent remote read calls. 0 means no limit.
--storage.remote.read-max-bytes-in-frame=1048576
Maximum number of bytes in a single frame for streaming remote read response types before marshalling. Note that client might
have limit on frame size as well. 1MB as recommended by protobuf by default.
--rules.alert.for-outage-tolerance=1h
Max time to tolerate prometheus outage for restoring "for" state of alert.
--rules.alert.for-grace-period=10m
Minimum duration between alert and restored "for" state. This is maintained only for alerts with configured "for" time
greater than grace period.
--rules.alert.resend-delay=1m
Minimum amount of time to wait before resending an alert to Alertmanager.
--alertmanager.notification-queue-capacity=10000
The capacity of the queue for pending Alertmanager notifications.
--alertmanager.timeout=10s
Timeout for sending alerts to Alertmanager.
--query.lookback-delta=5m The maximum lookback duration for retrieving metrics during expression evaluations.
--query.timeout=2m Maximum time a query may take before being aborted.
--query.max-concurrency=20
Maximum number of queries executed concurrently.
--query.max-samples=50000000
Maximum number of samples a single query can load into memory. Note that queries will fail if they try to load more samples
than this into memory, so this also limits the number of samples a query can return.
--log.level=info Only log messages with the given severity or above. One of: [debug, info, warn, error]
--log.format=logfmt Output format of log messages. One of: [logfmt, json]
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